Is there any part of my comment that you understood, or did you just read "Apple" and think "How dare he?!??!" Quick tip: that last line was a reference to "Casablanca". Should go without saying, but again, you and that reading thing...
Running the Apple walled garden model against a variety of hardware, and your rapid updates brick some of the models. Shocked - SHOCKED - that there's gambling going on in this establishment.
If we ever get to the moon, for the love of God, do NOT take off your helmets when going inside any structures, terraformed or not. And if you see any large cobra-worms, DON'T try to pet them. Show some common sense.
Microsoft: obscure error code with a generic description
Old Apple: Bomb icon that says 'Error'
New Apple: Plain blue screen, nothing else
So simple and refined!
MSR did the implementation for.Net generics. They incubated Linq (via C-Omega). There's the Reactive Framework. Code Contracts comes from them. Tons of AI work. Michael Abrash worked there for a while on natural language.
They come up with some good ideas in research. Their main problem IMO is that they are too conservative about releasing some of their projects, or in some cases emphasizing them (i.e. keeping indexed searches off by default until Google Toolbar started doing fast desktop searches). They've got infrastructure out the wazoo, but it's rare that the fully utilize it.
The whole "zombie apocalypse" fad just escapes me. I'm sure these folks have to know that zombies are fictional, so what gives? Is it the fantasy of blowing the heads of people without the stigma of being homicidal? Is it an attempt to justify doomsday prepping? Is it because vampires are passe? I just don't get it.
They use the game as a pretext to search his backpack in the mornings, ala the airport, and when he's got a gun in the backpack, it's become reality. If he has normal stuff and a phone in the bag, it's just a video game.
there are people out there who would rather send their kids to a good school and live their lives rather than spend their spare time trying to make a crap public school better. The activist mindset where people expect other people to take on their own cause(s) is the height of arrogance. So public school suck. Fine. That doesn't mean we all have to send our kids there just for the sake of motivating us to try to improve it; there are people whose paying jobs it is to make those schools better.
This has come up with the app before. Google has ad APIs that they don't give to MS, making it difficult for MS to enable Google's ads with their app. Google supposedly made nice with them over this issue several months ago, unblocking MS' app from YouTube, but I suspect that the API exchange never happened, leading to the new block.
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Is there any part of my comment that you understood, or did you just read "Apple" and think "How dare he?!??!" Quick tip: that last line was a reference to "Casablanca". Should go without saying, but again, you and that reading thing...
Running the Apple walled garden model against a variety of hardware, and your rapid updates brick some of the models. Shocked - SHOCKED - that there's gambling going on in this establishment.
"In myyyy day, we wrote hand-tuned assembly, and we LIKED it!"
If we ever get to the moon, for the love of God, do NOT take off your helmets when going inside any structures, terraformed or not. And if you see any large cobra-worms, DON'T try to pet them. Show some common sense.
Microsoft: obscure error code with a generic description Old Apple: Bomb icon that says 'Error' New Apple: Plain blue screen, nothing else So simple and refined!
Many of them involve an evil cactus as the villain.
A patent for patenting. Sure there's prior art, but when has that stopped anyone from trying?
And again in 30,000 years when Voyager gets past the Oort Cloud and *really* leaves the solar system.
Nice substance. "B-b-b-ut it's not a memo...it's too looooong!"
MSR did the implementation for .Net generics. They incubated Linq (via C-Omega). There's the Reactive Framework. Code Contracts comes from them. Tons of AI work. Michael Abrash worked there for a while on natural language.
They come up with some good ideas in research. Their main problem IMO is that they are too conservative about releasing some of their projects, or in some cases emphasizing them (i.e. keeping indexed searches off by default until Google Toolbar started doing fast desktop searches). They've got infrastructure out the wazoo, but it's rare that the fully utilize it.
The whole "zombie apocalypse" fad just escapes me. I'm sure these folks have to know that zombies are fictional, so what gives? Is it the fantasy of blowing the heads of people without the stigma of being homicidal? Is it an attempt to justify doomsday prepping? Is it because vampires are passe? I just don't get it.
They use the game as a pretext to search his backpack in the mornings, ala the airport, and when he's got a gun in the backpack, it's become reality. If he has normal stuff and a phone in the bag, it's just a video game.
Sounds so provocative and original.
"Duhhhh, umm, OK."
there are people out there who would rather send their kids to a good school and live their lives rather than spend their spare time trying to make a crap public school better. The activist mindset where people expect other people to take on their own cause(s) is the height of arrogance. So public school suck. Fine. That doesn't mean we all have to send our kids there just for the sake of motivating us to try to improve it; there are people whose paying jobs it is to make those schools better.
It's an easy way to get one's name in the news.
That doesn't even list Ray Ozzie at all. I found that a bit surprising, as I thought he left over conflicts with Sinofsky.
Is this the same genius at Forbes who actually suggested that Microsoft sell off Xbox a few months back?
Or from a different perspective, Slashdotters will even complain about MS when Ballmer *does* retire.
You can stop reading right there.
My thoughts exactly!
That, and the 90s never died here.
This has come up with the app before. Google has ad APIs that they don't give to MS, making it difficult for MS to enable Google's ads with their app. Google supposedly made nice with them over this issue several months ago, unblocking MS' app from YouTube, but I suspect that the API exchange never happened, leading to the new block.
And know deep in your heart that you're carrying a purse.